She takes a shell in her webbed hands, holds it up to the light; for a moment, the stress and pain disappears from her face. It's not exactly like the shells from home. The coral isn't exactly like the coral from home. Convergent evolution only goes so far. But it's close enough. It's familiar, and she knows what it is.
"I think my heart needed this," she says. "I was losing faith in people."
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She takes a shell in her webbed hands, holds it up to the light; for a moment, the stress and pain disappears from her face. It's not exactly like the shells from home. The coral isn't exactly like the coral from home. Convergent evolution only goes so far. But it's close enough. It's familiar, and she knows what it is.
"I think my heart needed this," she says. "I was losing faith in people."